CIN 101 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE
George Eastman - Answers - (1888) devised a still camera that made photographs on
rolls of sensitized paper. This camera, which he named the Kodak, simplified
photography
(1889) transparent celluloid roll film, breakthrough in move toward cinema
Eadweard Muybridge - Answers - - Photographed running horses to study gait
- set up a row of 12 cams
- made a lantern to project moving images of horses
Peter Marc Roget - Answers -
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Answers - -Directed by Robert Wiene
-considered the first horror film and begins German Expressionism movement
-radical set distortions: jagged landscape, sharp angles
-directing and cutting helped carry the story, used setting to squeeze, turn and adjust
viewers eyes
German Expressionism - Answers - - 1920-19267 film image became graphic art.
depended heavily on mise en scene. play of light and dark that has actually been
painted onto the set
- reacted against realism, extreme distortion
-The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Started with inspiration from B of a N
- 1) Classic 2) street films of effect of war on street people 3) films based on German
myths
Edwin Porter - Answers - - American filmmaker
- "The Life of an American Fireman" (1902)
- "A Great Train Robbery" (1903)
- Narrative films tell a story
- "Uncle Tom's Cabin" one shot scenes and "Jack and the Beanstalk"
- Developed the idea of editing, close ups, chase scenes
Mack Sennett - Answers - - Founded Keystone Studios and essentially created the
slapstick genre that was later perfected and enhanced by early comic film actors.
- Fast action, chase scenes with "Keystone Kops", group of comic stars including
Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin and Mabel Normand
Abel Gance - Answers - - Gance entered film in 1911 as scenarist and then began
directing. He started with more commercial parts, then moved onto more personal films.
- His La Dixieme was the first film of the impressionist movement (1918)
, Jack and the Beanstalk - Answers - - Made by Edwin S Porter (1902)
- Revolutionized editing and special effects
Max Linder - Answers - Comedian for Pathe, world famous for playing an elegant but
disaster prone man. Wrote a directed most of his movies, he would influence Charlie
Chaplin
Harold Lloyd - Answers - - Famous actor who did stunts himself
- character "Lonesome Luke" was an imitation of Chaplin
Black Maria - Answers - - A film studio created by Thomas Edison in New Jersey.
America's first movie studio.
- Kinetoscope films
Motion Picture Patents Company - Answers - - Company founded by Thomas Edison to
control the movie equipment business; known as the Trust
- Sued competitors for patent infringement
- AM&B refused to pay
Praxinoscope - Answers - - An animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was
invented in France in 1877 by Emile Reynaud
- Spinning drum, moving images in a series of mirrors
Kinetoscope - Answers - - Peephole device that ran the film around a series of rollers
W.K.L. Dickson - Answers - - Scottish inventor who developed the kinetoscope under
the employment of Thomas Edison, did most of the work
- Influenced the entire history of cinema
- Worked with Marey to invent the Mutoscope and became a major competitor with
Edison
E. Jules Marey - Answers - - invented shotgun camera to study the flight of birds
- (1888) built a box-type camera, first to combine flexible film stock and an intermittent
mechanism in photographic motion
- inspired other inventors to record and analyze motion
Birth of a Nation, 1915 - Answers - - Controversial but highly influential and innovative
silent film directed by D.W. Griffith.
- It demonstrated the power of film propaganda and revived the KKK.
- used technique of intercutting between battle sequences and reactions on the home
front
- tracking shots, still shots based off war photos, extreme LS/Panorama
The Great Train Robbery (1903) - Answers - - Edison film popular in 1903
- Made by Edwin S Porter
- tale of bandits holding up a train
George Eastman - Answers - (1888) devised a still camera that made photographs on
rolls of sensitized paper. This camera, which he named the Kodak, simplified
photography
(1889) transparent celluloid roll film, breakthrough in move toward cinema
Eadweard Muybridge - Answers - - Photographed running horses to study gait
- set up a row of 12 cams
- made a lantern to project moving images of horses
Peter Marc Roget - Answers -
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Answers - -Directed by Robert Wiene
-considered the first horror film and begins German Expressionism movement
-radical set distortions: jagged landscape, sharp angles
-directing and cutting helped carry the story, used setting to squeeze, turn and adjust
viewers eyes
German Expressionism - Answers - - 1920-19267 film image became graphic art.
depended heavily on mise en scene. play of light and dark that has actually been
painted onto the set
- reacted against realism, extreme distortion
-The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Started with inspiration from B of a N
- 1) Classic 2) street films of effect of war on street people 3) films based on German
myths
Edwin Porter - Answers - - American filmmaker
- "The Life of an American Fireman" (1902)
- "A Great Train Robbery" (1903)
- Narrative films tell a story
- "Uncle Tom's Cabin" one shot scenes and "Jack and the Beanstalk"
- Developed the idea of editing, close ups, chase scenes
Mack Sennett - Answers - - Founded Keystone Studios and essentially created the
slapstick genre that was later perfected and enhanced by early comic film actors.
- Fast action, chase scenes with "Keystone Kops", group of comic stars including
Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin and Mabel Normand
Abel Gance - Answers - - Gance entered film in 1911 as scenarist and then began
directing. He started with more commercial parts, then moved onto more personal films.
- His La Dixieme was the first film of the impressionist movement (1918)
, Jack and the Beanstalk - Answers - - Made by Edwin S Porter (1902)
- Revolutionized editing and special effects
Max Linder - Answers - Comedian for Pathe, world famous for playing an elegant but
disaster prone man. Wrote a directed most of his movies, he would influence Charlie
Chaplin
Harold Lloyd - Answers - - Famous actor who did stunts himself
- character "Lonesome Luke" was an imitation of Chaplin
Black Maria - Answers - - A film studio created by Thomas Edison in New Jersey.
America's first movie studio.
- Kinetoscope films
Motion Picture Patents Company - Answers - - Company founded by Thomas Edison to
control the movie equipment business; known as the Trust
- Sued competitors for patent infringement
- AM&B refused to pay
Praxinoscope - Answers - - An animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was
invented in France in 1877 by Emile Reynaud
- Spinning drum, moving images in a series of mirrors
Kinetoscope - Answers - - Peephole device that ran the film around a series of rollers
W.K.L. Dickson - Answers - - Scottish inventor who developed the kinetoscope under
the employment of Thomas Edison, did most of the work
- Influenced the entire history of cinema
- Worked with Marey to invent the Mutoscope and became a major competitor with
Edison
E. Jules Marey - Answers - - invented shotgun camera to study the flight of birds
- (1888) built a box-type camera, first to combine flexible film stock and an intermittent
mechanism in photographic motion
- inspired other inventors to record and analyze motion
Birth of a Nation, 1915 - Answers - - Controversial but highly influential and innovative
silent film directed by D.W. Griffith.
- It demonstrated the power of film propaganda and revived the KKK.
- used technique of intercutting between battle sequences and reactions on the home
front
- tracking shots, still shots based off war photos, extreme LS/Panorama
The Great Train Robbery (1903) - Answers - - Edison film popular in 1903
- Made by Edwin S Porter
- tale of bandits holding up a train
